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Alexandre Linte updated HIVE-14087:
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Component/s: CLI
Beeline
> ALTER TABLE table PARTITION requires write permissions
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>
> Key: HIVE-14087
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14087
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Beeline, CLI, Hive
> Affects Versions: 2.0.1
> Environment: Hadoop 2.7.2, Hive 2.0.1, Kerberos
> Reporter: Alexandre Linte
>
> I discovered that altering a table will require write permissions when a
> partition is created.
> {noformat}
> hive (shfs3453)> ALTER TABLE external_table ADD IF NOT EXISTS
> PARTITION(address='Idaho') LOCATION
> "hdfs://sandbox/User/shfs3453/WORK/HIVE_TEST";
> ALTER TABLE external_table ADD IF NOT EXISTS PARTITION(address='Idaho')
> LOCATION "hdfs://sandbox/User/shfs3453/WORK/HIVE_TEST"
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.
> MetaException(message:java.security.AccessControlException: Permission
> denied: user=shfs3453, access=WRITE,
> inode="/User/shfs3453/WORK/HIVE_TEST":shfs3453:shfs3453:dr-xr-x---
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.check(FSPermissionChecker.java:319)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:219)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:190)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkPermission(FSDirectory.java:1720)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkPermission(FSDirectory.java:1704)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkPathAccess(FSDirectory.java:1678)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.checkAccess(FSNamesystem.java:8178)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.checkAccess(NameNodeRpcServer.java:1911)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.checkAccess(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:1443)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:616)
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:969)
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2049)
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2045)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1657)
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2043)
> )
> {noformat}
> This is a strange behavior because nothing is written in
> "/User/shfs3453/WORK/HIVE_TEST".
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